I discovered the magnifying glass trick 28 years ago (in jr high school) using a Canon FT-ql and a 50/1.8 lens. As far as quality goes, it demonstrates nicely all the abberations of a single...
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I discovered the magnifying glass trick 28 years ago (in jr high school) using a Canon FT-ql and a 50/1.8 lens. As far as quality goes, it demonstrates nicely all the abberations of a single...
Even a perfect leaf shutter will be effectively slower at its higher settings and small apertures, as much as a full stop, since the blades spend virtually all of their time in transition at the...
There's alot of hyperbole going around about how much better fiber looks than RC. My opinion is that the surfaces look different, and that difference can impart a preference. I'm wary of anyone who...
Stephen wrote: "I have written to all of the film holder manufactures at one time or another begging them to produce an all metal film holder... Plastic is not conductive and builds static charges...
The older one might be in poor condition. Buyer beware.
7.)The 4x5 TLR
I agree with Dick that an older lens of the same type can do just as well. OTOH the Omegaron is, I think, a second tier, 4 element lens. A Rodenstock Rodagon (or EL Nikkor or Componon-S)is a better...